- Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould White ("née" Harmon born to Robert and Eunice Harmon, was an American Christian leader whose prophetic ministry was instrumental in founding the Sabbatarian Adventist movement that led to the rise of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Supporters of Ellen G. White regard her as a modern-day prophet, usually expressed in the language that she exhibited the spiritual gift of prophecy as outlined in the New Testament.
- Herbert W. Armstrong
Herbert W. Armstrong was the founder of the Worldwide Church of God and an early pioneer of radio evangelism, taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon. He later founded Ambassador College and the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation, which promoted the arts, humanities, and humanitarian projects. Through his role with the foundation, Armstrong and his advisors met with heads of governments in various nations, …
- Billy Sunday
William Ashley Sunday was an American athlete and religious figure who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. Born into poverty, Sunday spent some years in an orphanage before taking a series of odd jobs in several small Iowa towns as he demonstrated his prowess in amateur athletics.
- Benji Madden
Benjamin Levi Madden (born March 11, 1979) is the guitarist and backup vocalist of the band Good Charlotte. He has been engaged to Australian actress/singer Sophie Monk since December '06.
- Ian Gillan
Ian Gillan (born 19 August, 1945 in Hounslow, London), is an English rock music vocalist best known as the lead singer for Deep Purple. During his career Gillan had a year-long stint as the vocalist for Black Sabbath and sang the role of Jesus Christ in the original recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar". Gillan is considered to be one of the foremost rock vocalists, who introduced into rock music the vocal belting technique.
- James Caviezel
James Patrick Caviezel, Jr. (pronounced ) (born September 26, 1968) is an American film actor. He is sometimes credited as Jim Caviezel. He is perhaps best known for playing the part of Jesus Christ in the 2004 Mel Gibson film "The Passion of the Christ".
- George Miller
George Miller, born George Wade Dornberger, (February 17, 1950 - March 5, 2003) was a stand-up comedian. He first performed standup at age 21 and made his network television debut on The Tonight Show in 1976. He appeared on national television programs several times in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and was a friend to many in the West Coast comedy scene who later enjoyed tremendous success, including David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld.
- Simcha Jacobovici
Simcha Jacobovici is an award winning and controversial documentary director and producer whose work deals primarily with controversies in Jewish history. He co-authored with Charles R. Pellegrino the highly controversial "The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History" (2007), a companion book to the Discovery Channel documentary about the unearthing of the alleged tomb of Jesus Christ.
- Erik Prince
Erik Prince (born June 6, 1969 in Holland, Michigan) is the founder and owner of the military support contractor Blackwater USA. A millionaire and former US Navy SEAL, after high school he briefly attended the United States Naval Academy before attending and graduating from Hillsdale College. After college, he earned a commission in the United States Navy after joining in 1992, and served as a Navy SEAL officer on deployments to Haiti, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, …
- Laurence Gardner
Laurence Gardner is a writer, genealogist and historical lecturer. He has written many books on alternative history. Gardner is occasionally styled "Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain", "Presidential Attache to the European Council of Princes" and "Prior of the Celtic Churchs Sacred Kindred of Saint Columbia". He also claims to be Jacobite Historiographer Royal of the Royal House of Stewart.
- Richard B. Hays
Richard B. Hays is the George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. Hays received B.A from Yale College and Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D from Emory University. Considered as one of the world's leading New Testament scholars, Hays' work focuses on New Testament ethics, the Pauline epistles and early Christian interpretation of the Old Testament.
- Robert L. Reymond
Robert L. Reymond is a Christian theologian of the Protestant Reformed tradition. He is best known for his "New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith" (1998). J.I. Packer called it Reymond's magnum opus. It has been endorsed as a valuable Reformed systematic theology of the late 20th century by reformed leaders such as J.I. Packer (Regent College), Edmund Clowney (Westminster Phila), John Frame (Westminster CA), and Roger Nicole (Reformed Theological Seminary).
- Adolf Schlatter
Adolf Schlatter was an Evangelical theologian and professor specialising in the New Testament and systematics at Greifswald, Berlin and Tübingen. Schlatter, born in St. Gallen to a pietistic preacher, studied philosophy and theology in Basel and Tübingen between 1871 and 1875, gaining his post-doctoral teaching qualification ("Habilitation") in 1880. In 1888, he became a lecturer at the University of Berne.
- Ron Dicianni
Ron DiCianni is a contemporary Christian artist and author who primarily uses oil on canvas. DiCianni was born on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois to Italian immigrants. After attending the American Academy of Art in Chicago, he embarked on a career in commercial illustration. Quickly recognized as one of the nation’s most talented illustrators, his client list included such companies as McDonald's, Eli Lilly and Company, Ford, Baxter, Philadelphia Eagles, …
- Nicolas Notovitch
Nicolas Notovitch (1858-?) was a Russian aristocrat and journalist known for his contention that during the years of Jesus Christ's life missing from the Bible, he followed travelling merchants abroad into India and the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, Nepal, where he studied Buddhism.
- Dick Lucas
Dick Lucas is the vocalist of the highly influential and ofttimes controversial eighties British anarcho-punk rock band, the Subhumans, who he joined in September 1980. Before that he had been vocalist in The Mental, from March 1979 to August 1980. Lucas' lyrical content ranged from his outrage and defiance at a system that had, in his perception, betrayed him to philosophical ruminations on the nature of conformity, group-think and the individual's place in society.
- Bruce Marchiano
Bruce Marchiano is an American actor and author, best known for his portrayals of Jesus Christ in the Visual Bible film series. Marchiano began acting at the age of 13 when he had a small role in a school play. Acting soon became his career. Before his roles as Jesus he was often cast as a villain. He joked that Jesus was the first nice guy he ever played. Although he grew up in a strong Catholic home, …
- Maire Brennan
Máire Ní Bhraonáin, IPA: better known as Máire Brennan or Moya Brennan (born August 4, 1952, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland), is a Celtic folk singer. She began her singing career when her family formed the band Clannad in 1970. Brennan released her first solo album in 1992, "Máire", on Atlantic Records. "Misty Eyed Adventures" on BGM followed three years later.
- David Bebbington
David W. Bebbington (Ph.D. Cambridge) is professor of history at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Dr. Bebbington joined the department of history at Stirling in 1976 and was appointed to a Personal Chair in 1999. His principal research interests are in the history of politics, religion and society in Great Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and in the history of the global evangelical movement.
- Heinrich Hofmann
Johann Michael Ferdinand Heinrich Hofmann (March 19 1824-June 23 1911) was a a German painter of the late 19th to early 20th century. He was the uncle of the German painter Ludwig von Hofmann. He was born in Darmstadt, Germany and died in Dresden, Germany. He is best known for his many paintings depicting the life of Jesus Christ.
- Aristo Of Pella
Aristo of Pella (mid 2nd century) was a Jewish Christian writer, who like Hegesippus represents a school of thought more liberal than that of the Pharisaic and Essene Ebionites. Aristo is cited by Eusebius ("Hist. Eccl." iv.6.3) for a decree of Hadrian respecting the Jews, but he is best known as the writer of a "Dialogue" between an Alexandrian Jew named Papiscus, and Jason (who represents the author) on the witness of prophecy to Jesus Christ, …
- H. B. Warner
H. B. Warner (26 October 1875 - 21 December 1958) was a British actor. He was born Harry Byron Warner in St John's Wood, London in 1875. His father was an actor, and, although young Harry had initially thought to study medicine, he eventually followed in his father's footsteps and performed on the stage. Warner began his film career in silent films in 1914, when he debuted in "The Lost Paradise".
- Chris Cole
Chris Cole (born March 10, 1982 in Statesville, North Carolina), is a professional skateboarder. Cole currently resides in Levittown, Pennsylvania He has the recent notable achievement of tre-flipping (360 flip) the Wallenberg four (a set of four very large stairs at Wallenberg High School, measuring 6 feet high, and 18 feet long, in San Francisco).
- Brian Connor
Rev. Dr. Brian N. Connor is an American pastor and exorcist who also teaches people about spiritual warfare. Connor graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and holds a doctor of ministry degree. In 1985 the ministry of exorcism was first introduced to him when he encountered a woman who was a third generation satanist. From then on he has been ministering to people with spiritual oppression.
- Enrique Irazoqui
Enrique Irazoqui is a Spanish (Catalan) movie actor. He's the son of a Basque father and a Jewish mother. Irazoqui became famous for his role as Jesus Christ in the 1964 film "The Gospel According to St. Matthew".
- Martin Boehm
Martin Boehm (November 30,1725 - March 23, 1812) was an American clergyman and pastor. He was the son of Jacob Boehm and Barbara Kendig who settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Boehm married Eve Steiner in 1753 and in 1756 he was chosen by lot to become the minister of the local Mennonite church. Although raised a Mennonite, he lacked the assurance of the presence and power of Jesus Christ in his life and he prayed for a heart-warming experience, …
- Edwin Johnson
Edwin Johnson (1842-1901), English historian, is best known for his radical criticisms of Christian historiography, continuing scholarship in the vien of Bruno Bauer, S.A. Naber, and A. Pierson. Among his known works are "Antiqua Mater: A Study of Christian Origins" (1887, published in London anonymously) and "The Pauline Epistles: Re-studied and Explained" (1894).
- Diodorus Of Tarsus
Diodorus of Tarsus was a bishop, early monastic reformer and opponent of Arianism. After the early School of Antioch came into decline, the presbyter Diodore of Tarsus (Διόδωρος) re-founded it in the middle of the fourth century as a semi-monastic community. He was a native of Antioch who had studied philosophy in Athens together with his friend Basil of Caesarea.
- Michael Franzese
Michael Franzese (b May 27 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American gangster of the late 20th century who was a member of the Colombo crime family. He is the son of reputed Colombo underboss John "Sonny" Franzese. Franzese was elevated to captain during the 1980s while Sonny was serving time in jail. His soaring rise through the ranks was the result of lucrative rackets, …
- Stephen S. Sawyer
Stephen Shelby Sawyer (born August 30, 1952 in Paris, KY, USA) is an American artist widely known for his unique and sometimes controversial visual interpretations of Jesus Christ, as well as his ministry, "Art For God". His work has been featured in many magazines, newspapers such as the front page of The New York Times, and news shows such as The Today Show. Since 1995, Sawyer travels to several locations in America and occasionally other countries sharing his testimony.
- Laszlo Toth
Laszlo Toth (b.1940), is an Hungarian-born Australian geologist who vandalised Michelangelo's Pietà statue on May 21, 1972. Wielding a hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ - risen from the dead", he removed the Virgin's arm at the elbow, knocked off a chunk of her nose, and chipped one of her eyelids. He was never charged with the crime, in view of his apparent insanity. On January 29, 1973, he was committed to an Italian psychiatric hospital.
- Glenda Green
Glenda Green, M.A., D.D. is an American artist, academic and author. She is considered to be one of America's finest realist oil painters and has paintings in major collections. Her experiences in painting a portrait of Jesus Christ in 1992 led her to write a book of her inner conversations with Jesus which has become an international best seller.
- Tom Short
Tom Short (born March 23 1957) is an American traveling campus evangelist affiliated with Great Commission Churches who has generated debate and controversy at a number of universities but is influential and celebrated within his movement. His beliefs are largely Evangelical, based on the Bible, including salvation from sin through faith in Jesus Christ, and that all Christians should publicly profess their faith, be baptized, and make other disciples.
- Israel Zolli
Israel Anton Zoller (b. September 27 1881, Brody, Galicia - d. March 2 1956) was an Italian Jewish Rabbi, who converted to Roman Catholicism. Zoller was born to a family of dynastic rabbis. In 1920 he was appointed as rabbi of the city of Trieste, which had just been transferred from Austria-Hungary to Italy. The family Italianized their surname to "Zolli". In 1940, Zolli became the Chief Rabbi of Rome.
- Michael Knott
Michael Knott is a prolific singer/songwriter and frontman for a multitude of bands, many of them Christian. Knott has released some 35 albums, including solo albums and, most familiarly, records with the rock bands LSU and Cush. Knott's music has not been without controversy in Christian circles, …
- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is a well-known animator and mangaka in the anime industry. Yasuhiko dropped out of Hirosaki University and was hired by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970 as an animator. He later went freelance and worked on various animation productions for film and television. In 1981 he won the Seiun Award in Art category. He began working as a manga artist in 1988. In 1992 he won the Nippon Mangaka Kyokai (Japan Cartoonists Society) Award.
- Penny Lernoux
Penny Lernoux (January 6, 1940 - October 9, 1989) was a U.S. journalist and book author. Lernoux was born into a comfortable Catholic family in California and excelled in school. She enrolled in the University of Southern California in the late 1950s and, after being nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, qualified as a journalist for the United States Information Agency (USIA), a government arm devoted to promoting U.S. policy overseas.
- Jesus
Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE to 29–36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. He is also called Jesus Christ, where "Jesus" is an Anglicization of the Greek Ίησους (Iēsous), itself a Hellenization of the Hebrew יהושע (Yehoshua) or Hebrew-Aramaic ישוע (Yeshua), meaning "YHWH is salvation"; and where "Christ" is a title derived from the Greek christós, meaning the "Anointed One," which corresponds to the Hebrew-derived "Messiah."
- Andreas Huebner
Andreas Huebner is a German Evangelist and Tele-Evangelist who has reached millions of people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, especially in Third World Nations, such as Pakistan, India, Indonesia, many nations of Africa and even Cuba, where he has held an evangelistic conference in 2001. Tens of thousands are flooding to his crusades. He is the founder and president of the international missionary work "Jesus To The World Mission".
- Ini Kopuria
Ini Kopuria (died 1945), a police officer from Maravovo, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands formed the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, the Right Reverend John Manwaring Steward, realised Ini's dream by forming a band of brothers (known in the Mota language as 'Ira Reta Tasiu') to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the non-Christian areas of Melanesia.